It took me ages to figure out a title for this review. Mostly because I like the iPhone 7, but also because I know that it isn’t “as good” as Apple could make it. I know the company is holding back on stuff for nextyear and that means no matter how good this phone is you know, deep down, that Apple deliberately heldoff on things, saving them for next year.
There’s no getting around the fact that the iPhone 7 is a dead ringer ( no pun intended) for the models wesaw in 2014 and 2015, but there’s a good reason for keeping the same design for a third year – 2017 marks a decade of the iPhone, and we’re guessing that Jony Ive and his design team at Cupertino are planning something very special for the next model.
The 4.7-inch LED-backlit IPS LCD display remains unchanged from last year, boasting the same resolution of 750 x 1334 pixels. 3D Touch is also included, despite the fact that outside of Apple’s own OS and apps, it rarely seems to get used in any meaningful fashion; I keep forgetting it’s even a thing for days at a time.
iOS 10 ships as standard on the iPhone 7 and comes with some genuinely useful new features. One of themost useful introductions is the Today page, whichsits on the left-hand side of your main homescreen, rather like Google Now does on stock Android phones, such as the Nexus 6P.
This year’s 12MP snapper has an f/1.8 aperture which means that around 50% more light is able to make its way into the lens. There’s also optical imagestabilisation, a feature which was exclusive to the iPhone 6s Plus last year. Add to this a Quad-LED True Tone flash and the iPhone 7’s photographic powers are clearly superior to last year’s offering.Apple claims the iPhone 7 is 60 percent faster than the iPhone 6s when it comes to focusing and capturing a snap, but the 6s was already so swift it’s almost impossible to truly verify this boast.